Powers/Abilities: As well as being able to instantly transform into
the Black Archer, bow and all, the Archer had an aero cycle which could become
invisible. His aim with the bow was inhuman, and he had a variety of arrows,
including smoke bolts and one which would trail a line behind it to entangle
his target. He also had a dirk which would release flame with a thought from
its owner. In dire emergencies he could also summon the Black Hand of Fate
(what this could do however is unknown to me).

History:
Clem Macey was a clumsy but lucky TV reporter, working for a TV station in
the crime-ridden American city of Delago. However, "Unlucky Macey" (as his
co-workers dubbed him) never managed to be around when anything newsworthy
was happening. Frustrated at Macey's inability to provide a story, his boss,
Mr. Belling, ordered him to go out with his cine camera and find a new angle
on crime for an upcoming programme, or else lose his job. Checking out the
waterfront, hoping to find a story there, Clem chanced to spot a man running
across the rooftops, and followed in the hope of finding something of interest.
Instead, Clem fell through a skylight, and landed in an ornately decorated
room containing both furniture and high-tech lab electronic equipment. The
room's centrepiece was a portrait, which depicted a cloaked individual Clem
recognised as being the Black Archer, a legendary avenger of wrongs he had
read about in books. A strange old man entered the room, seemingly unsurprised
to find the intruder, and pointed out to Clem that he resembled the Archer.
Claiming to know much about Clem, the stranger told him to enter a nearby
cylinder, telling Clem the city needed a new Black Archer; bizarrely accepting
of this, Clem found himself doing as instructed, and the old man threw a
switch on the electronics, somehow gifting Clem with the Black Archer's powers.
The portrait faded to blankness, while Clem found himself garbed in the Archer's
costume, and the stranger informed Clem he had "brought them together," so
that Clem could now transform into the Archer at will. Using his newfound
powers, the Black Archer saved the man he had spotted earlier on the rooftops
from gangsters pursuing them, the first adventure in his new crimefighting
career.

Comments: Created by Eric Bradbury. The Black Archer appeared in Tiger
and Hurricane for around a year.

The
Archer had two reluctant assistants, Chango and Katt (image to left, l to
r Chango and Katt respectively). Both were by nature crooks, but worked for
the Archer, possibly out of fear.

Thanks
to Stephen Montgomery for the information clearing up this character's background
and powers.

The Black Archer featured prominently in Zenith
Phase 3, although he wasn't named.